3 ms·
I used Perl for years... Perl missed its transition window. Randall Schwartz and the community would tell you that “Perl is more popular than ever”, because th
by melling 6y ago
I used Perl for years... Perl missed its transition window.
Randall Schwartz and the community would tell you that “Perl is more popular than ever”, because the rising tide of programmers meant it was used by more people.
The Perl 5 vs Perl 6 created weakness and Python filled the void and won over that segment.
It became the new standard. Now it will be very difficult to dislodge.
Anyway, the entire Perl 6 fiasco will serve as a lesson for future projects.
- brongondwana 6y agoSee also "IPv6" - the number 6 is cursed.
- homarp 6y agosee also PHP6
- brokenkebab 6y agoWhile confusion around P6 certainly hurt Perl, Python started to conquer over areas previously held by Perl even before that. AFAICT educational establishments didn't like Perl because it embraces expressivity. There's more then one way approach feels good once you grok it, but for the most teachers its anathema - it means you need to explain much more.
- qsort 6y agoEh, kind of. Perl as a teaching language is obviously terrible, but on the other hand Python outside of academia is basically the DSL to call numpy. I think the problem is, more simply, competition. Now that Perl isn't the only reasonable dynamic language (you have ruby, python, nodejs...), people have more choices, and are ultimately just going to use what they already know as a 'plumbing' language.